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The Moralism of Multiculturalism

Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2005
Moralism is a frequent charge in politics, and especially in relation to the ‘politics of recognition’. In this essay, I identify three types of moralism — undue abstraction, unjustified moralism and impotent moralism — and then discuss each in relation to recent debates over multiculturalism in liberal political theory. Each of these forms of moralism
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The Multicultural State We're In: Muslims, ‘Multiculture’ and the ‘Civic Re-balancing’ of British Multiculturalism

Political Studies, 2009
British multiculturalism is alleged to have buckled under various Muslim-related pressures. Indeed, some intellectuals, commentators and politicians of different political persuasions have pointed to evidence of a ‘retreat’ to be found in an increased governmental emphasis upon ‘integration’ and ‘social cohesion’.
Meer, Nasar, Modood, Tariq
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Multiculturalism and the midwife

Australian College of Midwives Incorporated Journal, 1998
This article explores the concept of multiculturalism and the relationship between the midwife and clients from non-English speaking backgrounds. There is evidence to suggest that cultural biases and stereotyping inhibits equity in care provision.
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Gender and multiculturalism

An essay by Susan Moller Okin, first published in 1997, sparked theoretical and societal debates on gender equality and multiculturalism. A central issue was whether there is a tension between the two, and if so, which one should take priority and why, while others believed this is the wrong way of posing the question.
Gily Coene, Sawitri Saharso
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Is feminism good for multiculturalism? From Multicultural Citizenship to multicultural feminism

One key argument that grounds Will Kymlicka’s Multicultural Citizenship is directly inspired by the second wave of feminism. Indeed, his justification of cultural rights, aimed at providing public protection to cultural minorities, derives from the observation that the public sphere is not neutral from an ethnic point of view and that, as a consequence,
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Nationalism and Multiculturalism

2005
Any conceptual or empirical analysis of the relations between ‘nationalism’ and ‘multiculturalism’ must begin by acknowledging the ambiguity of such notions—and setting aside those of their possible meanings which would make that analysis fruitless or impracticable from the outset.
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Multicultural Society and Multicultural Education

The Journal of Humanities and Social sciences 21, 2021
Seongran Ha, Gyunyeol Park
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Multicultural peer counseling: counseling the multicultural student

Journal of Adolescence, 1999
This article focuses on methods of recruitment, selection, and training of multicultural peer advisors, e.g. screening, training workshops, and innovative recruitment methods are discussed. The author devotes special attention to instructional elements that are intended to provide peer advisors with those humanistic skills needed to work directly with ...
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Reflections on multiculturalism

2019
A multicultural society involves and is best managed by institutionalising formal and informal dialogue between its constituent cultural communities. Multiculturalism is often taken to involve social ghettoisation, cultural or moral relativism, and the minority’s right to live on its own terms. This chapter questions this.
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Multicultural citizenship or citizenship in a multicultural polity .

2009
Citizenship in liberal democracies has, until recently, been theorized as conferring equal legal status on all citizens irrespective of their race, religion, ethnicity, culture or language. While much discrimination and unequal treatment existed in practice, the theory was that all citizens should be treated equally, exactly the same, regardless of ...
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